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Whole Foods buy just the start of Amazon's costly process to reshape grocery delivery: industry players

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Published Sun, Jun 25, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    IF Amazon.com Inc hopes to revolutionise grocery delivery, then its bid to buy Whole Foods Market Inc for US$13.7 billion will be just the start of a long and costly process.

    The e-commerce giant would need to add a large network of specialised grocery distribution warehouses, former AmazonFresh employees and logistics experts said. This is something Wal-Mart Stores Inc and other competitors have already done.

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